Fangs & First Kisses

Chapter 2

OWEN

If there's one thing that makes me feel like shit all the time is the fact that I'm not human. I'm a freaking vampire prince for heaven's sake. I go to Rushmore High School and have to disguise myself as a 17-year-old jock that loves to play American Football.

I don't even know what's a touchdown, although I do play well if I do say so myself. My parents, King Luxter and Queen Viylor, are the worst creatures known to man. They give no craps about who and what they harm and only really care about making people miserable. Unlike humans, vampires don't marry or have kids out of love but out of obligation. According to my parents, I'm the future tyrant of the vampire society hidden in New York City named Erebus Nox. I'm obliged to marry a vampire in our society and not dishonor the bloodline by marrying a human. The fact that I even have to have kids makes me want to puke.

I enjoy the fact that I at least can go somewhere other than Erebus Nox and have friends who do not try to flirt with me every chance they get just because I'm their prince. It's not that I don't enjoy school, it's just that I get a strange feeling whenever I look at the human girl in my homeroom class named Lexi Daphne. I mean, my heart starts to beat very fast and my face heats up.

I try to fight it but I just can't resist looking at her brown waist-length hair and almond-shaped green eyes. Lately, she looks more dead than me even though I don't try to hide my gaunt appearance, I wonder why she's like this though...

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I wake up to three loud beeping sounds coming from my bedside table. Three annoyingly loud beeps. I groan awake as I reach for my phone, 6.30 am. I get up and stretch before I take my clothes and walk into the shower. I realize that my favorite lion blood-flavored toothpaste is empty and I throw it in the trash bin. This feels like a start to a bad day.

I throw on my white undershirt and put on my black leather jacket above it as I put on my jeans. I take a sip of the cow blood on the dining room table as I run out the door before hurriedly muttering a goodbye to my parents as I run out of the castle. I quickly shapeshift into my usual black stallion as I start to gallop through the castle courtyard and through the town. I arrive at the road across from the high school before I shapeshift back. My clothes are slightly dusty from the mud I galloped in on the way here. I wait at the crosswalk for the traffic lights to turn green and I suddenly turn my head when I sense something beside me. I look to my left and see that girl Lexi beside me.

Oh god...My face turns hot again as my heart beats faster. She's looking down at her phone and she sighs when I hear a 'ping' coming from her phone. "Uhm...Hi." I say out, my voice trembling. She looks up from her phone to look at me and stares at me for a while. Oh shit...Is she judging me? Do I still have blood on my face? "Hi, do I know you?" Lexi finally replies with a hint of confusion in her voice. "I'm in all your classes, Lexi. I'm Owen Riverwood!" I reply while trying to put some energy in my voice.

"Oh! You're Owen...The jock who plays football right?" she asks as if she has never seen me before. I nod my head as I notice the traffic lights has turned green and I cross the street. I take note of how tired Lexi seems to be, her eyes have such deep circles underneath and her face has a weird complexion to it. I want to ask her why are they there but I am stopped when I see my best friend, Lycan, waiting for me.

He is much taller than me and gives off traits of a Golden Retriever. His good physique makes all the girls in the class swoon over him and ask him for help with assignments because he's smart too. I high-five him as I look back at Lexi who waves me a goodbye and waits for someone. I feel butterflies in my stomach and my face turns even warmer and Lycan takes notice of it. "Owen, your face is very red... Are you ok?" I nod as I blush even harder of embarrassment. Why does my face do this? It's so obvious! I walk into the school and bid farewell to Lycan who does not have the same classes as me.

I take a seat in my homeroom and wait for the teacher to come in. I look around to find Lexi but she's not here. Strange...She's never late. Could she have gotten into an accident? Was I the cause of it? I catch sight of the girl who always sits next to Lexi and I quickly ask her where she is. I think her name is Willmore. "Hey Willmore, uhm...have you seen Lexi?" Willmore raises her eyebrows as if my sentence was something extraordinary. "She's in Mr. Parkson's office for something that I can't tell you." She replies with a whisper. I plan to hypnotize her to know why Lexi is there but I stop myself.

Lexi needs her privacy so just let her be. I know it's forbidden to even dare try to confess my feelings to her but this is a new feeling I have never felt before. Am I feeling...love? No, it can't be Owen. Snap out of it! Mum and Dad will kill me! I bury my head in my hands as I try to wipe Lexi away from my mind. I realize that I cannot hypnotize myself nor can anybody else  get Lexi out of my head. Ugh, Lexi...Why are you just so attractive? Why can't I get you out of my mind? I keep thinking about her hair and eyes as I fall into deeper despair.

I suddenly hear her voice calling my name through the noise of the homeroom. "Owen...Owen, Owen!" The voice slowly turns into a sharp screech as I look up to see Ms. Jackie calling my name, her eyes red with fury. "Owen! Where's your homework? I've been calling you for the last four minutes!" I blush as I desperately look under my desk for my homework and I realize everybody is staring at me. My homework is drenched in the cow blood I brought to school as a drink. Terrified looks fill the room as they stare at the blood-soaked homework on the floor while Ms. Jackie looks at me as though I just killed a man. Oh shit...